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Group planning for group housing

Put 160 focussed pork producers, advisors, equipment manufacturers and researchers together for a total of three days to discuss improving sow welfare with group housing systems and you’ll generate varied views, some challenges and maybe some solutions.

Canada: scientists seek strategies for early detection and prevention of lameness of sows

Research examining the factors affecting the productivity of group housed sows will assist Canada's pork producers as they consider the switch to group sow housing systems.

Variations in the interval from the weaning to the first mating and in the percentage of births resulting from the matings according to the month, year 2008

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Seasonal effects (temperature and light): analysis and minimization of their consequences

It is a widely documented fact that pig production has seasonal variations mainly focused on a descent in the reproductive efficiency in the gestation phase (difficulty in the coming into oestrus, a higher number of reproductive failures) during the summer and autumn months.

European sow stall ban: 18 countries say they will be ready for the new legislation

In mid-June, the EU Commission announced that 18 Member States had confirmed that they expected all of their remaining pig breeders to be compliant with the new regulations by 1 January 2013.

Space allowance for gestating sows in pens: Behavior and immunity

Different floor space allowances for dry, pregnant sows in pens were evaluated to determine the impacts of space on sow behavior, immune, and cortisol measures.

A quick way for measuring the sows consists in the division of the distance to be measured by two (a half), taking only one measurement: the distance from the spine (central point) to one of the two flanks

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Using flank to flank measurement to predict sow body weight

To accurately predict sow body weight by using their flank to flank measurement in order to determine daily feed intake or accurate medication dose.

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Order when entering the sows from the pregnancy to the farrowing quarters in big farms

In the previous piece of advice we saw that in small farms it could be interesting to maintain a certain order when entering the sows in the farrowing quarters depending on their parturition. Nevertheless, in big farms or in farms that group together many farrowings at the same time we will have to think about the order in another way, because if the farrowing quarters are not very big we will have the same batch of sows housed in several rooms.

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New tool predicts piglet’s nursing ability

The immunocrit, which measures newborn piglet serum immunoglobulin, is simple, inexpensive, rapid, and accurate.

Spain: new provisions for the adaptation of pig farms to welfare legislation

The conditions to be met by producers who have not completed the process of adapting to the new regulations for accomodating breeder sows are established.

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Limited and excess protein intake of pregnant gilts affects body composition and newborn and weanling development in piglets

Dietary protein level during pregnancy may affect fetal and piglet development.

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Food comes from farms: sows

This episode of Food Comes from Farms shows how family famers provide a humane housing and care for sows.

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Influence of dietary L-arginine supplementation to sows during late gestation on sow and litter performance during lactation

L-arginine supplementation during late gestation does not affect piglet performance and milk yield.

United States breeding inventory down from last year

United States hog producers intend to have 2.85 million sows farrow during the September-November 2012 quarter, down 3 percent from the actual farrowings during the same period in 2011, and down 1 percent from 2010.

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Science before legislation

In the U.S., the individual gestation stall for sows is being banned based on perception, not science, and that has Janeen Salak-Johnson, a University of Illinois associate professor in animal science, looking for answers as what is best for the sow from a welfare standpoint. In fact, she believes the decisions being made on the legislative front are premature and could possibly put sows in a welfare compromised situation.

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Optimizing individual and group housing systems based on indicators of sow well-being

High fiber diets reduce stress markers in group housing gestating sows.

Effect of different dietary fat sources at the end of gestation on the performance of sows and their offspring

The results show the importance of the FA composition in colostrum on the growth of piglets.